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Teste de gramática III
Manipulate the sentences to show a reciprocal relationship:
Mary cooked for John.
John cooked for Mary.
Mary and John cooked for each other.
Observe the following explanation. Fill in the blanks with the correct terms:
Noncount nouns are __________ in number for purposes of subject-verb agreement but cannot take the __________ and the __________ as common, count nouns do.
· singular – indefinite article – plural inflection
How many noun phrases (NPs) can be found in one sentence?
· Many. There can be an NP in the subject, in the predicate, and in the prepositional phrases.
Use articles to expand the following newspaper headline:
· The U.S. is attacked. Two hijacked jets destroy the Twin Towers and hit the Pentagon in a day of terror.
What are the most common determiners?
· a – an – the – Ø – some
How many NPs are there in the following sentence?
MAYBE JOHN PLAYS SOCCER IN THE PARK.
3
In the context of the noun phrase (NP) what is a partitive?
· A phrase (generally a noun + of) that precedes another noun and helps quantity how much of the second noun there is.
Choose the option with the correct distribution of articles to complete the sentence:
John Roebling is __________ name of __________ engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. He died in 1869 from __________ infection before __________ bridge was completed
· the – the – an – the